Reading or storing boot data in auxiliary memory of a tape cartridge
US8914665B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 6, 2006 |
| Grant date | Dec 16, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1469
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A tape drive for exchanging data with a tape cartridge, which has tape media and auxiliary memory that is not tape media, is operable, in response to a boot request from a computer apparatus that is bootable from a kind of initial program load device that is not a tape drive, to read boot data stored on the auxiliary memory and to output the boot data for booting the computer apparatus.
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